The St. Louis County Police Department has announced the suspension of an officer who was seen pointing a semi-automatic assault rifle at a Ferguson, Missouri, protester and threatening to kill him. The confrontation occurred during the protests and looting following the shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. [Warning: foul language]
The confrontation was caught on video, as shown below. The officer can be seen walking around with his assault rifle raised and pointing the weapon at protesters while saying “I’m going to fucking kill you. Get back. Get back.” When asked for his name, the officer is heard to say “Go fuck yourself.” He was later led away by another officer who appeared to get him to lower his weapon.
The police issued a statement that”The unified command strongly feel these actions are inappropriate, and not indicative of the officers who have worked daily to keep the peace.”
He has been “relieved of duty and suspended indefinitely”
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/20/us/missouri-police-officer-suspended/index.html?hpt=ju_c1
Max-1,
What are the list of demands from the activists in Chicago? Where is the outrage there?
Karen: “Personally, I don’t care about his sexuality in the least either way, although I would be curious.”
Repeating, but distilling: “I don’t care…., although I would be curious.”
Chuckling.
Karen, Superb point on the hypocrisy of the left. A rumor that Perry is gay is not met w/ vitriol or personal attacks against the person saying it. The reaction is normal. But, I say I think Hillary is gay and the feces hits the fan. We obviously have a much better grip on people being gay than the Hillary cultists.
Another Ferguson racist cop relieved of duty:
(Guardian).
Squeeky
Are you suggesting his mother should have aborted her son before he was conceived thus saving these officers time and money? And your claim of recidivism?
Retired Philidelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis
(Yes, he also stood with NYC Occupy against NYPD)
http://youtu.be/cVNqESt9vvw
One American cop could have done what it took 30 British cops to do. Along with permanently solving any future recidivism issues. Because I bet the loony toon with the machete hurts somebody in the future, the next time he is off his meds or whatever.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
happypappies
No Justice… No Peace.
Words ring true. As that man in the video said (that is not me BTW), Scott is now truly free and at peace. It is interesting that many people fall victim to the notion that Justice follows peace when we all know that it is peace that follows the footsteps of Justice, for without Justice, there is but anarchy. And we all know, anarchy is never about peace but the false pretence of peace through submission.
Peace
@Max Remember Lederach?
“Can individuals, communities & societies make the choice to transform great suffering into great wisdom? Can trauma be seen as an invitation to spiritual, emotional and societal transformation?
If we say “yes”, the resulting journey is spiritual work of the deepest sort.
The journey leads into the depths of ourselves as individuals and groups.
Here we come face-to-face with our own darkness.
In this unlikely place, grace abounds, & transformation & hope begins.”
http://www.goneinaheartbeat.com/articles/tjmp.html
How the police in the UK take on a knife wielding madman…
Michael Brown was shot twice as much as British police discharged their guns last year.
https://twitter.com/paulxharris/statuses/502911559740694529
Thanks Darren.
https://twitter.com/sallykohn/statuses/502980007929864192
Paul C. Schulte
happypappies – you know all this about Hitler because of your background?
What’s to know Paul? The man was a Monster. I don’t know how old you are but I am old enough to never forget and I also have studied enough of the human brain and especially Hitler’s to make a comment about it? I have already made more than one comment about pseudo intellectual activity on here.
According to the DSM IV Hitler was afflicted with Axis 1 and 2 Personality Disorders. He was Paranoid, Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Sadistic. He also was considered to have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotic Thinking and Paranoid Schizophrenia. The Paranoid Schizophrenia of the 2000 model was especially close to fitting him according to one of the studies.
According to Erich Fromm in 1973 he considered Hitler a nonsexual necrophilius character and a “”malignant” aggressor with and “anal” character which gave rise to intense narcissism, destructiveness, and a profound inability to relate to others.
What I found especially interesting was his character sketch on the oral and anal fixation and his Oedipal complex with his Mother.
Fromm felt Hitler transferred his intense incestuous love and he was unable to express to that he had for his Mother onto his Homeland Germany and his Hatred of the alcoholic father was acted out by destroying the collective Jew
http://www.psychologyandsociety.org/previousissues/
happypappies – the problem with psychoanalyzing Hitler is that so much propaganda was spread about him during WWII, it is hard to get to the real man. According to the DSM-V narcissism is not a big problem anymore, fyi. And Freud only has a small following these days.
@Paul C. Schulte The problem is everyone says that everything said about Hitler is propaganda and we are supposed to believe that. The truth is the man held a nation in thrall that was burning marks to keep warm because of the Versailles Treaty crippled them Financially
I found a timeline of his rise to power that is stripped down to almost nothing that shows imo an act that was a turning point *February 1933
The German Reichstag is destroyed by fire. The plot and execution is almost certainly due to the Nazis but they point the finger at the communists and trigger a General Election. It was blamed on this Dutch Communist who had committed arson, Marinus van der Lubbe when Goring was said to have bragged later to have done it himself
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/hitlers-rise-and-fall-timeline
http://remember.org/guide/Facts.root.solution.html
This man with the help of a few key players because of his charisma was able to turn a nation around from starving to death to a world power in 4 years. That is quite a feat. To be so blase about a psychological profile is ridiculous beyond imagining and you did not even look at it anyway as you said something about Freud. I don’t believe Freud even was mentioned although a great many great men had input.
Squeaky read it even though she was not impressed. It doesn’t matter. You all don’t have a clue as you are not introspective regarding the human psyche so that’s okay
happypappies – you need to read a few of the really key books done on Hitler. It was usual when I was growing up to blame the Riechstag fire on the Nazis but now it usually is blamed on the Dutch Communist who admitted to it. The Nazis, like good Democrats who don’t let a crisis go to waste, took advantage of the crisis.
Goring would not have gotten his hands dirty setting the fire. And Goring, who was very verbal during his Nuremberg defense did not admit to it on the stand. And they sure threw the kitchen sink at him. If they would have thought they could have pinned the fire on him they would have, but they didn’t.
I also have problems with psychological profiles of people done at long distance. They are interesting, but not compelling. And, since there is a lot of misinformation still floating around about Hitler, it is hard to make a diagnosis if the facts about someone are wrong. And then they keep changing the DSM. What was a mental disease no longer is with each change of the DSM. And those making the diagnosis are expected to find some. Hitler did bad acts, ergo Hitler has psychological issues. Have you ever watched a criminal trial where they have dueling psychologists, each saw the same patient, each saw the same patient differently.
@Paul C. Schulte – @It was usual when I was growing up to blame the Riechstag fire on the Nazis but now it usually is blamed on the Dutch Communist who admitted to it. The Nazis, like good Democrats who don’t let a crisis go to waste, took advantage of the crisis. (Paul Just because Nazi’s were National Socialists doesn’t mean they were Democrats. That’s a real stretch don’t you think?)
Goring would not have gotten his hands dirty setting the fire.(Goring’s hands were filthy dirty with lots of things be real) And Goring, who was very verbal during his Nuremberg defense did not admit to it on the stand. (so what?)And they sure threw the kitchen sink at him. If they would have thought they could have pinned the fire on him they would have, but they didn’t.. GOERING: I can only answer for myself. What Himmler did I do not know.
I neither betrayed the Fuehrer, nor did I at that time negotiate with a single foreign soldier. This will, or this final act of the Fuehrer’s, is based on an extremely regrettable mistake, and one which grieves me deeply-that the Fuehrer could believe in his last hours that I could ever be disloyal to him. It was all due to an error in the transmission of a radio report and perhaps to a misrepresentation which Bormann gave the Fuehrer. I myself never thought for a minute of taking over power illegally or of acting against the Fuehrer in any way.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: In any event you were arrested and expected to be shot?
GOERING: That is correct.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: Now, in tracing the rise of power of the Party you have omitted some such things as, for example the Reichstag fire of 2/27/1933. There was a great purge following that fire, was there not, in which many people were arrested ad many people were killed?
GOERING: I do not know of a single case where a man was killed because of the Reichstag fire, except that of the incendiary, Van der Lubbe, who was sentenced by the court. The other two defendants in this trial were acquitted. Herr Thalmann was not, as you recently erroneously believed, accused; it was the communist representative Torgler. He was acquitted, as was also the Bulgarian, Dimitroff. Relatively few arrests were made in connection with the Reichstag fire. The arrests which you attribute to the Reichstag fire are the arrests of communist functionaries. These arrests, as I have repeatedly stated and wish to emphasize once more, had nothing to do with this fire. The fire merely precipitated their arrest and upset our carefully planned action, thus allowing several of the functionaries to escape.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: In other words, you had lists of Communists already prepared at the time of the Reichstag fire, of
persons who should be arrested, did you not?
GOERING: We had always drawn up, beforehand, fairly complete lists of communist functionaries who were to be arrested.
That had nothing to do with the fire in the German Reichstag.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: They were immediately put into execution-the arrests, I mean- after the Reichstag fire?
GOERING: Contrary to my intention of postponing this action for a few days and letting it take place according to plan,
thereby perfecting the arrangements, the Fuehrer ordered that same night that the arrests should follow immediately. This had
the disadvantage, as I said, of precipitating matters.
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON: You and the Fuehrer met at the fire, did you not?
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/goering1.html
Do you really think I haven’t read “Several Key books” on Hitler? You go right ahead and tear down that key factor – the guy was naked – oh wait – here is a good one – http://joepwritesthehistoryofberlin.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/marinus-van-der-lubbe/
Who cares that they keep re doing the DSM every few years as some of the Key diagnoses are always the same such as Classical Narcissist, Paranoid Schizophrenic, Borderline Psychotic and so forth. These diagnoses are classic and do not change and I challenge you to find changes in them. We are not discussing diagnoses about Bipolar and Homosexual and Transsexual individuals.
Furthermore, as I told Squeaky, To discuss Hitler in a blase way as you can’t understand him from afar when he did more to change the face of Western Civilization 70 years ago than anyone is not only unbelievable, it is frightening.
happypappies – did Goring admit to the fire? BTW, the new DSM fiddles with the diagnosis of narcissism. Here is a pdf with a comparison of the DSM IV and DSM V criteria for narcissistic personality disorder. You will have to get through the general description to get to the disorder you want. There is a major change in the diagnosis/criteria.
Paul – really? you said he didn’t get accused at all? Did you think he was going to admit it? Well? Did you? Seriously? Did he take his poison pills or commit suicide? who knows. who cares. The reason they keep chipping away at the Narcissistic Personality Disorder is because of the Liberals imo. They have them admitting that they are Narcissists now and can be cured. lolololol.
You asked for my credentials.?????? My Life is my Credential. I don’t want to give you too much information because that tends to get people making too many judgements. Know what I mean? Have you ever had a personal relationship with a Narcissist? It isn’t pleasant. You don’t even know it’s happening to you if you have low self esteem like I used to have…..
What difference does any of this really make. It’s only my opinion. We can’t prove it. We know that. The thing that is important is that people must remember that Hitler held a nation in Thrall that was at it’s knees from the Versailles Treaty and raised it to Greatness again in 4 years and he never graduated with a formal degree that I could find. Everywhere I look he was troubled. I see an interest in art and from the first he seemed Anti-Semitic. He made these people feel great by virtue of their “blood”. Please let’s not have this again. We are facing an end times crisis now of epic proportions but unlike Squeaky, I can’t equivocate ISIS to Hitler
happypappies – there are two schools of thought on Hitler and Antisemitism. One school says that it was a lifelong thing, but they have no proof of that, it is supposition. The other says that it did not start until after WWI and maybe not until after his rejection from the Academy of Art. This school points to the fact that he had trench mates during WWI who were Jewish and his commanding officer, who put him forward for the Iron Cross, was Jewish. Also, there is no anecdotal evidence of his Antisemitism prior to the end of WWI.
Paul C. Schulte
I agree the premise regarding Anti Semite post WW 1 but I think what may have really tripped it was the course he took on Pan German Nationalism that sparked all of his hatred and jealousy also into the Cultured Successful Jew. A lot of these people emigrated and were never accepted because of their successes. Therefore when the Versailles Treaty took hold, it became all the Jew’s fault and they must pay. It was their inferiority and inbreeding and so on that caused the failure of the blood.
Look…. I know what is going on here. I still think that he is not a normal man. Because you are rational and normal does not mean that everyone else on the street is. He has found his way to rise above everyone else and prove his superiority. But t’s never enough for him you see,
happypappies – ‘normal’ is in the eye of the beholder. Just what constitutes ‘normal’ is within you. Your ‘normal’ may not be my ‘normal.’ At the time that Hitler was accummulating power, the Passion Play at Obergammergau would have been playing at its most anti Semetic (that portion of the play has now been toned down). The Catholic Church had been teaching, for centuries, that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ. As a Jesuit educated Catholic boy Hitler would have been exposed to this anti Semetism. So, is Hitler normal for all Austrian youth of that period? Probably.
In a country that is anti Semetic to begin with, the Jews become a convenient target later on. For politics to succeed, there must always be an ‘other.’ For the Democrats, it is the evil Republicans. For the Republicans, it is the evil Democrats.
@Paul C. Schulte. Perhaps….. I still think he was not “Normal” I don’t particularly like that word so I won’t use it again. Let us say i truly believe as many do from observing history, his actions, timelines, ceaseless studying and so forth that he was a sociopath. Absent Father, Domineering mother…and his actions well most say he tried to get in to art school when she lay dying of breast cancer. A strong lack of emotion. I will not bore you with later actions that I know you are aware of but this is a classic early on split of a Sociopath. I am fascinated with these things. Always have been. Also, I don’t follow the school of epistemology or I try not to I try to be objective and you should be able to tell that in our dialog. Someone has to be real out here
Personally, I was not too much interested in Politics until 5 years ago and was amazed at the value people put on the judgement of Cable news. But I do not watch TV much.
As a point of interest, you reminded me of William Blake’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” wiith those last couple of sentences. Because really, most people don’t realize one can’t exist without the other. It’s all about balance and that’s what scared me so about Mr. Hitler
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
@happypappies
You said:
“I do know Squeaky was running on about how her father said Hitler was a Normal man and not crazy or evil. That is scary in itself. Any Psychiatrist out there will tell you he was a Paranoid Schizophrenic with Delusions of Grandeur or what we now call a Classical Narcissist.”
Would any psychiatrist say that the Muslims calling for the annihilation of Israel, or the Muslims who are anti-semitic, were paranoid schizophrenics with delusions of grandeur, or aka Classical Narcissists??? Would you say it???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Look at your Name Squeeky Fromme She was a Paranoid Schizophrenic who cut her face up for Manson to X herself from society.
Care to try again sweetie?
Last comment was supposed to go to Max-1
Annie – this is why people keep saying that Hitler was a Socialist – you go Figure. You are the one making excuses for him and posting pictures of Jesus with a machine gun. You make a cavalier remark about him exterminating people because of their religions and what you didn’t say was because of their race or retardation or any other extenuating circumstance from the Aryan norm and you call that normal and a good leader?????????????
Or was it Squeaky who said that I get you two mixed up by the time I comment because you have the same philosophy it’s hard to keep it separate.
I do know Squeaky was running on about how her father said Hitler was a Normal man and not crazy or evil. That is scary in itself. Any Psychiatrist out there will tell you he was a Paranoid Schizophrenic with Delusions of Grandeur or what we now call a Classical Narcissist.
Annie
Hitler also persecuted Jehovah Witnesses and other religions he saw as “cultish”.
on 1, August 22, 2014 at 1:33 pm Annie
Hitler thought he was doing Godly work. The inscription on Nazi belt buckles, Gott mit Uns.
Go to your 2:38 comment for Jesus with Machine Gun and you and Squeaky were having one of your conversations where you can’t tell you apart. But I am getting better at it and will be able to eventually. I am an old woman but I know what is going on still and believe me, that was incredibly Cavalier of you and if you can’t figure out why, I feel for you.
Why I waste my time explaining the obvious to you like it’s some sort of test to my intelligence idk. I certainly am curious to what is going on in your mind with the flippant comments you make
@karens
I think that is the whole point of constant racism accusations, to keep the old wounds alive. I think some people do it for the money, others for the votes, and others use it like a Baa the Blankey to lull themselves into a personal state of bliss.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Max:
“It’s reported that it used to make her vomit after every performance. I can’t get through it without crying either.”
The video of her singing that song should be played in high school history class. I couldn’t play your link, but I vividly recall her face expressing gut wrenching emotion. I believe you that singing it made her ill, because she was vividly aware of what she was singing.
I sometimes think of her singing that song, when I see very young, talented singers beautifully singing songs, in which they completely lack the appropriate emotion of the song. I think that takes years and sometimes painful experiences to put that kind of emotional power into music.
The song made me think of the important maxim to never forget, and guard against recurrence.
That is crucial.
And yet, it can easily go too far until it becomes its own prejudice.
It reminded me of a story my father tells of when we were stationed in Europe. I was too young to remember the exchange. But we were being waited on by a woman when the next group came in. She suddenly paled, excused herself, and sat down in the back while another lady helped them. She returned after they left, looking sweaty and ill. She said, “I’m sorry, but they’re German. I just can’t ever get over it. All I can do is make sure I don’t pass this on to my kids.”
She was French, and had survived WWII.
It wasn’t until I was older that I understood her stance. It’s good to pass down our history accurately, and prevent its recurrence, but we should not teach hatred to our children.
The knee-jerk racism accusations that get bandied about de rigueur appear to do exactly that – keeping hatred alive and passing it down to the next generation.
I wish more people would wait for facts to prove racism, which does rear its ugly head at times, and then deal with it firmly but with a clear head.